The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-03-09
CONGRESSIONAL.
Work Of the Senate and the House
Of Representatives.


A HOUSE bill FORGETTING certain lands granted
TO the State OF Michigan for q railroad from
Ontonagon to the Wisconsin State line passed
the Senate on the LIST inst. The Senate passed
nifty private pension bills in twenty-five
minutes, as also bills To convey 70 the city OF
Aurora H. small island IN FOX
the Missouri at Yankton; TO annex a por-
ton OF Idaho TO Washington Territory and to
give right Of way through Indian Territory to
the Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska Road. The
Senate ordered the preparation OF an index 70
its secret journal for the fifty years from 1879 TO
1879. The injunction OF secrecy will probably
be removed next autumn The conference re-
port on the river and harbor bill was adopted by
both houses. 1t appropriates nearly $4,000, 600.
lean pension appropriation Of 3, 800 600 for the
remainder OF the fiscal year, and -, GOO, 900 for
next year. The legislative and deficiency APP
preparation bills were passed under suspension
OF the rules. At the evening session bills were
passed for bridging the Missouri ut Omaha and
Kansas City, and the Mississippi at keokuk.
The Senate passed the naval appropriation
bill on the ID inst, with AN amendment provid-
ing for six protected steel cruisers and for the
purchase OF Ericsson's Destroyer In executive
session Public Printer Benedict was confirmed
by the Senate by vote OF 81 to 10. The report
OF the Committee on Printing recommended
his rejection because he did not answer to the
requirements Of the law, which stipulates that
the incumbent OF this Office shall be n prac-
teal printer which, technically speaking, Mr.
Benedict is not having never learned the trade
printers art while editor Of a newspaper and
proprietor Of Il job office. Mr. German and Mr..
Miller, Of New York, defended Benedict, and
argued that having proved himself "A competent
man during six months OF trial he should not be
rejected upon a technicality, which appeared to
be the opinion of the Senate for twenty Repub-
licans voted in his favor The Senate Committee
on the District of Columbia reported adversely
upon the nomination OF James NJ Trotter to be
Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia.
The nomination OF Lieut. Greedy TO be Brigadier
General and Chief Signal Officer was reported
favorably. The House of Representatives reced-
ed from its amendments TO the Senate retaliatory
fisheries bill and the Pacific railroad investiga-
ton resolu tions. The Committee on Ways and
Means made an adverse report on the bill for the
relief OF sufferers by fire at PASSPORT, Ne.
SENATOR HoAR made bitter attack on
Speaker Carlisle, in the Senate on the Sd inst.
He stated that by holding back the appropria-
ton bills both the Senate and House were COM
PEELED in the closing hours of the session TO sub
NIT to the dictation of three or four members OF
the House Committee on Appropriations. He
also complained that the Speaker had recently
refused to recognize q member desiring to make
motion OF which the Chair disapproved. The
Kentucky Senators rose and defended Speaker
Carlisle from the charge of usurpation OF power
The Senate passed bills for public buildings at
Dayton, Sioux City, Lafayette, and Lynn over
vetoes by the President and the House bill APP
propriatng So 100000 TO pay pensions TO Mex
lean veterans. The President sent to the Sem
ate the nomination of Chauncey X Schultz OF
Missouri, to be Assistant Treasurer of the United
States at st. Louis, Mo-. also the following
Registers of Land Offices At Concordia, Kan,
Samuel Demeres; Deadwood, ID. T., John II.
Whiteside Blackfoot, Idaho, Frank w. Bean.
The President approved the act authorizing the
President to defend the rights of American
fishing vessels, American fishermen, American
trading and other vessels in the British Do
minions of North America; also the Indian APP
preparation bill the act TO establish IN agri-
cultural experiment station in connection with
the colleges established under the act of July
2, 1862; and the act relating to the division of
the State of Illinois into judicial districts
and to provide for holding terms Of court
Northern District Peoria.
The House of Representatives passed Senate
bills to repeal the tenure of Office act to accept
the Highwood tract from the Commercial Club
of Chicago; TO appropriate $3.50, 00) for the pur-
chase Of postoffice site at San Francisco an
attempt to pass the Senate bill pensioning Mrs:
Logan was defeated. The bill admitting free of
duty articles intended for the Minneapolis ex-
position, and the Senate bill authorizing the
construction of n bridge across the Missis-
sippi at Grand Tower, H., passed.
Chairman Curtin, of the select committee cre-
ated by the House of Representatives to inquire
into the cause and extent of Western railroad
strikes, submitted the report OF that committee.
BY far the larger part Of the report is devoted
to history of the origin and progress of the
Missouri Pacific strike, and recapitulation of
the testimony taken by the committee
CONGRESS adjourned sine die ut noon on Fri
day, March 4. Among the appropriations OF ma
tonal importance that failed during the closing
hours the following: The deficiency the
District of Columbia, and the fortihcation bills.
The river and harbor appropriation bill, includ-
ing the Hennepin Canal, failed because of the
failure CT the President to sign it before the adj
journment. The anti-polygamy bill became q
law without the Presidents signature, ten days
having elapsed after its passage before the final
adjournment of Congress. The failure of the
deficiency bill is likely to embarrass the postal
service, as it contained provisions for supplying
pressing demands for posta-cards, stamps, and
other items The legal machinery of the Gov
eminent will also be materially disarTanged
during the remainder OF the fiscal year, no
money will be available for jurors, witnesses,
or marshals' fees, and many prisoners cannot
be tried for months to come A number of sol.
diers' claims, aggregating $50, 000 which had
been certified by the Treasury, will fail also
of settlement. Navy department officials say
the failure OF the bill will cause a stoppage Of
all work on the new cruisers Boston and Chica-
60 1t is expected that the Atlanta can be COM
pleted, as bat little remains TO be done on her.
The Senate in executive session confirmed
James w. Trotter to be Recorder of Deeds for
the District of Columbia, and Captain Greedy
TO be Chief Signal Officer, with the rank of
Brigadier General Washington special thus
describes the closing scenes in the House: "All
night long the conference committees were
wrestling over the contested por-
tions OF the appropriations, and the
in session to await reports thereon and take
final action. IL was the most tedious and I'M
interesting all night session, and after mid
night, when the galleries had been emptied of
the crowd, at least one-haf of the members
went to their lodgings or to committee-rooms
and convenient resting places to sleep A
quorum was not present at any time after that
hour but the forms of legislation were kept up,
and number of bills were passed. The shout
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the House for action was kept up at intervals,
but did not disturb members sleeping in various
parts of the hall Wide-awake and tireless fell
lows unbent their dignity played pranks upon
each other, and resorted to other boyish means
of Willing away the time During the night
the announcement of an agreement upon the
legislative executive, and judicial appropria-
ton bill frightened the prospect that the di-
version of II brief debate on proposition to give
clerks to Representatives. well as Senators
was INDUCED in. Meanwhile the portions of the
bill that had been in dispute were being
rolled, and the bill was ready for the Presi-
dent in good time. The House remained firm
against the mail subsidy, and so the Senate
coded and the postoffice appropriation was
saved. The conferrees on the Notifications bill
did not agree, but had SO far reconcled differ
ences that it is believed few more hours would
have brought them together The Sioux City
public building bill. vetoed by the President,
was again passed by the Senate, but in the
House William l.. Scott of Penns ylvania, fought
| il and beat IL because Mr.. Struble, of Iowa had
defeated the Sioux City bridge bill. in which
Scott was Interested.